[The use of thermography in clinical practice].

A study is presented of the role of thermography (thermovision) in evaluation of disorders of microcirculation and objectivization of the pain syndrome in some chronic digestive diseases. It is shown that thermography enables to evaluate the functional state of microvessels. Thermovision makes it possible in most cases to objectivize pain, especially in the painful zones on the middle abdominal wall that is registered by an elevated infrared radiation.